craftgrrl | What I did this Thanksgiving (Reply)

This is what I did on Thursday since I very rarely get time these days to do projects for myself.
Of course, these days the projects for myself just seem to be getting more and more complex to keep my interest.
I present to you my Zodiac skirt!

This skirt has:
appx 3 yards, about a 50/50 mix of some black one way stretch heavyweight mystery material cut into 12 graduated scalloped edge panels. I had just enough to do 6 panels with each fabric and evenly mix them so it looked like it was supposed to be that way. One of the fabrics being so old and kicked around my misc rem boxes had something on it I was highly allergic to, which just made working on it extra fun with the sneezing and the itchy eyes and the hives......
1 1/2 yards of this fabric:

Purchased Wed night on clearance. I had just barely enough to cut one of each sign out and have enough around each edge to turn under to turn them into appliqués. Much pinning beforehand to make sure I cut the right ones was required. The appliqués of course all got interfaced with white to keep the colors and whites extra bright (yeah as if they need it right?) on the black background and also to give them some extra stiffness when worn. Again a fifty fifty mix since I ran out of fusible interfacing halfway through, the other half got interfaced with some white lining material tacked down with double sided hem tape since I have several rolls of the stuff that I never use.

About 5 packages of medium rick rick. Which I had also in my stashes. In coordinating colors such a bubblegum pin, olive green, dark red, purple, orange, and a small piece (enough to do one panel) of a mustard yellow. The fact that I had all these colors that were an exact match for the colors in the fabric was mildly amazing to me.

Side zip with a 2" button waistband that got decorated with the last bits of leftover rick rack.

My own pattern of course.

This skirt is very sturdily built with all the fabric edged serged, and the seams between the panels sewn together, then topstiched over to one side, then stitched again after that with the rick rack trim.
The only thing I was pissed about was the fabric being one way stretch (which of course I cut it so the stretch went sideways) I didn't think to baste the top of the skirt, resulting in it getting stretched a bit while I worked on it. So the waist got a bit gathered when I put in the waistband, which wasn't what I wanted, I wanted it to lay flat. But, since the side seams had 3 layers of stitching that would have needed to be picked out on all 12 panels to be taken in properly, I learned to deal with the gathering.

Appx 5-6 hours start to finish (including drawing up the pattern, cutting out, lots of pressing on those panels, and other fabric prepping)

This is all.

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